New You - Card Design Competition Discussion Thread

Competition Theme: New You

It's time to reinvent ourselves! Let's see just how drastic a transformation we can make.

• You must create a card that transforms a minion
  • On the battlefield, in the hand, wherever - so long as a minion is transformed, it counts!

RenoLord is looking for some adaptable minions this week, so make sure you can change them into something fancy!

As always, I can be reached through Discord or here on the site via PM if you have any issues to report.

Competition Phases

Here are the phases of this card design competition

• Submission Phase: Starts on Mon, Jun 13 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sat, Jun 18 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Voting Phase: Starts on Sat, Jun 18 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Sun, Jun 19 16:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Finalist Phase: Starts on Sun, Jun 19 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400). Runs until Mon, Jun 20 17:00 EDT (GMT -0400)
• Winner Selected: After finalist voting concludes and we validate votes.

Discussion Thread Rules

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Hope this counts. Basically when you draw the legendary you get these 2 minions in hand. This lets you play half of the minion early in case you need to control the board or feel it could survive to get the big minion earlier than turn 8. When they reunite and transform, it's a brand new minion with rush so you can attack with it right away.

Not sure if this is interesting gameplay wise, but I find it funny at least.

The 3 Mana version is more nuanced (as the 4 Mana version is a fancier "Your Hero Power silences and destroys minions"), but I'm not sure people will like its randomness.

I might go with something else entirely, dunno.

Damn slow week huh?

• linkblade91 - I like the idea behind the card but the SI7 connection feels a bit forced. It should turn only into minions imo to better fit the double agent vibe, and it should be a legendary (poor Chameleos)
• anchorm4n - i hate it cause it would make Shudderwock decks even more frustrating. It's just a bit too much hard removal packed into a single card without any downside or requirement.
• Wailor - I adore the art and i beg you to use it still for other ideas. The polymorph on hero power is not too great i fear. Mage has several ways to make their hp cost 0 and spam it on more targets in a single turn. This would become a new auto include hard removal combo in every control mage deck just like shaman does with [Hearthstone Card (Toxifin) Not Found] and [Hearthstone Card (Firamancer Murgl) Not Found]. An idea maybe worth trying something that poymorphs your own things in a good way. Sheep army. fear the sheep.

I've been meaning to more actively participate in these, but time irl stuff is rough. Inquisitor harkens back to Demonic Project, but the added ability to control what you transform and semi-control what your opponent transforms can lead to interesting gameplay patterns. Witchdoctor is another semi-support for Big Shaman, like Muckmorpher, but has the potential utility of removing an opponent's minion.

Still very silent here...

• BloodMefist - Efficacious Inqusitor seems a bit too derivative to my liking. The added left most condition makes it slightly more interesting but at the end its still a spell on a stick. Witty Witchdoctor harkens back to the big shaman archetype blizzard forgot about for some years now. Sadly I think it's anti synergistic with itself. If you have 2 of them in the deck you risk transforming into the second copy. And this itself is a rather bad minion to get off Eureka! or Muckmorpher so it wouldn't be played in those decks. 
• Demonxz95   -   Wave of Evolution strangely would probably be more played in an agrro deck. A weirder Embiggen for shaman. 3 drops for 1 mana, but you keep your card draw spells and burn. Well that's besides the point of the feedback. It's a decent card, might get downvited because of Deck of Lunacy PTSD. Faceless Envoy is strange to evaluate. Mostly it is the same as Flobbidinous Floop, but you dont get battlecries off. You probably meant it to be used in big minion combos which would work, and in that case it's a more restrictive Eternal Servitude.
• anchorm4n - They aren't from WoW no. This is a legendary I created for a custom class which is themed around dragonborns and people with dragon ancestors. Funnily enough its super close to the Dracthyr that were revealed recently in WoW. Yara and Balgruf in my invented lore are a human and a dragon that fell in love and are one of the couples responsible for the existence of half dragon hybrids. I dont strive much, or at all to have hearthstone-like card art, mainly cause I dont like hearthstone card art in general lol. It looks like the cartoony art on the cardboard packaging of plastic action figures at the supermarket. Not that it's all bad, some is cool. I'll should stop ranting about this probably.

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Wow, this does not have the participation I thought it would have. This isn't even a particularly complicated theme, so I'm not sure why.

I think participation tends to go down as seasons progress, I'm afraid. Also, many people have exams around this date, so that's probably influential too.

I made a couple of new cards (both Polymorph-themed), but my card received better feedback than I expected, so I'm not sure if I should post them.

Anyway, some feedback:

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Also, many people have exams around this date, so that's probably influential too.

Yeah, this is my final week of the college year, so between writing reports and studying for tests, I simply didn't feel like participating in feedback. Might be relevant for others as well.

Turned Witch Doctor into a spell based on feedback. I got a bit worried it was too similar to Eureka! (which I completely forgot existed), so I also made Ethereal Shadow Weaver which is more unique in its effect. Ill try to get feedback out at some point, but time constraints are rough, sorry y'all :(

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Turned Witch Doctor into a spell based on feedback. I got a bit worried it was too similar to Eureka! (which I completely forgot existed), so I also made Ethereal Shadow Weaver which is more unique in its effect. Ill try to get feedback out at some point, but time constraints are rough, sorry y'all :(

Ethereal Shadow Weaver isn't allowed because it doesn't transform minions, and Mojo Mixing is too similar to Eureka!, as you said (I didn't remember that card, either.

I'd probably go back to Witty Witch Doctor, but I'd give it Tradeable (and a Stormwind watermark, of course). His appearance doesn't fit Stormwind, so I suggest an alternate potion merchant flavor.

In any case, I've decided to post my other cards just because of the low activity this weak. I'll probably go with some variation of Ovella, though.

Polymorph: Penguin shows what cross school synergy could look like, but the transform effect itself is as boring as it gets.

Polymorph: Bomb is big + wide removal all in one. I think it's my favorite of my cards, but I've already used it in another comp and it didn't do too well.

Both use existing minions as tokens, in Snowflipper Penguin and Explosive Sheep.